The Millennium Indraprastha Park spans over a large
area of 85 acres stretching across a length of 2.7 km making it one of the
longest parks in Delhi. It has become a very popular hangout hub for young
couples and families who crowd this place during evenings and weekends. It also
features 13 Swings and Slides installed especially for children who are greatly
attracted to this place and in order to ensure that people spend a longer
period of time in this park; DDA installed five restaurants under one food
court offering ready-to eat food to all visitors as cooking within the premises
is prohibited.
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| The Millennium Indraprastha Park in Delhi |
The Millennium Indraprastha Park also features a
beautifully manicured Garden planted with beds of colourful flowers. The bushes
around the garden are seen clipped and trimmed into fantastic shapes and DDA
plans to construct a maze around this garden to add more fun and excitement for
the kids. Special efforts are in the pipeline to construct a separate area for
toddlers to play around with ample safety features. There is a stunning water
pool with cascades and fountain that are fringed with soft lights to ensure
that it does not harm the plants surrounding it. These lights are lit up in
evenings to add more glamour and attraction to the park. The park is well
equipped with pathways made especially for morning walkers and joggers,
benches, chairs and stools for sitting and a number of cottages covered with
thatched roofs that forms the main attraction of the park for all visitors.
The Millennium Indraprastha Park also uses the
assistance of the Sahitya Kala Parishad to organise various cultural events
within the huge amphitheatre constructed within this park. For the convenience
of the visitors the authorities have also installed drinking water taps and pay
toilets at every entrance of the park. Along with these facilities, parking
area for 25 cars is also available in front of each of the four gates of the
park with security personnel hired for safety against theft. DDA also plans to
create a proper parking lot with a reasonable parking fee to be paid in order
to accommodate more vehicles and provide better safety as seen in Malls.
The Millennium Indraprastha Park is covered with a
bright green carpet of grass that is seen well trimmed and maintained by DDA.
In order to create more greenery and natural ambience within the Park,
authorities have planted over 2,000 trees fringed along walkways and the
contours of the park and they will be adding over 8,000 more saplings of trees
in the near future. The work to embed more plants had tremendously slowed down
due to the nearby Sanitary Landfill surface filled with excessive methane
underneath which obstructs further plantation. Another factor which has been
kept in mind is not expunge and obstruct the area touching Humayun Tomb that
lies right behind the park as it is deemed as a heritage site by UNESCO.
